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Official Languages committee  Youth Employment Services was set up in 1995 by a group of leaders in the community who were concerned about the issue of youth retention in Quebec. The organization provides direct services to over 4,000 people annually, including those who need help finding employment, individu

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  One of the issues that I think is coming up quite clearly is our dependency upon each other in terms of our partnerships. We're starting to create a mosaic, and I think pulling out any one piece is going to create ripples in the whole community. I think some of the work that ha

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  I think it's pretty close to 17%. I have an article here from The Gazette from yesterday morning with the exact number. We get called upon quite often, and we usually get the most up-to-date statistics; it's very high.

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  We receive funding from Canadian Heritage, HRSDC, as I mentioned, Status of Women, Canada Economic Development—those four—plus we seek provincial money.

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  We're very excited about it.

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  We have not. We partnered with them when they were around. We did presentations about our services, but we're very aware of the closing of the centres. We have some issues with it because one of the things we find is that young people, when they're doing their job search, work in

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  Can I add that only about 20% of people get jobs through the Internet? Employers may be saying that people should do that, but at the end of the day, that's not how they're doing their hiring.

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  We have an arts program. I think Montreal is being perceived as a cultural centre, and a lot of young people are coming to Montreal. I'm always saying that youth are going to be mobile, so we shouldn't be trying to hold them in our communities, but we should be encouraging those

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  All right. May I answer you in English?

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  The centre itself is open to anybody, so people walk in and they sign up. We have workshops provided by staff. We have 22 staff; we have staff who do daytime workshops, but we also bring in a lot of volunteers. We have a lot of evening workshops when we bring in people from the b

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  It's Emploi-Québec.

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  There are two points there. Emploi-Québec gives organizations x amount of money to service...it's a pay-per-client model right now. I think some of the issues we're facing are similar to those the francophone communities are facing—we sit on several coalitions with those groups—a

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  Right. So that's number one. Two, I think the provincial government is invested in para-government organizations like the CJE and the CLD. For whatever reason, people from the anglophone community do not access these services for the most part. I don't know if there is the perc

April 5th, 2012Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  What are we currently seeing? Obviously, the current political situation is having an impact on what we are seeing and hearing, but I would like to address the issue in more general terms. Youth unemployment and underemployment is often quoted at about 13% for both Canada and

March 25th, 2014Committee meeting

Iris Unger

Official Languages committee  I wish I could answer that question. I think it's a question that many of the groups on our employment round table ask. I don't know the answer to that. I wish we did, and I don't know whose responsibility it is to get that information, but we really don't know the answer to that

March 25th, 2014Committee meeting

Iris Unger